Violent Minds —— Modernism And The Criminal

----- 暴力的思想：现代主义和罪犯

ISBN: 9781108676366 出版年：2018 页码：252 Matthew Levay Cambridge University Press

Just as cultural attitudes爐oward criminality were undergoing profound shifts in the late nineteenth and爀arly twentieth centuries, modernist authors became fascinated by crime and its perpetrators, as well as the burgeoning genre of crime fiction. Throughout the period, a diverse range of british and american novelists took the criminal as a case study for experimenting with forms of psychological representation while also drawing on the conventions of crime fiction in order to imagine new ways of conceptualizing the criminal mind. Matthew levay traces the history of that attention to criminal psychology in modernist fiction, placing understudied authors like wyndham lewis, dorothy sayers, graham greene, and patricia highsmith in dialogue with more canonical contemporaries like joseph conrad, henry james, dashiell hammett, and gertrude stein.